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diseases beside fiber traits.

**6. Material and methods**

feeding level on fiber diameter of cashmere [12].

chapter. These experiences included:

production.

world [11].

**7. Conclusions**

traits together, e.g., selection for birth weight, fertility, mature weight, resistance to

Ansari-Renani et al. [10] studied improving livelihoods of small farmers and rural women through value-added processing and export of cashmere. Small producers of cashmere goats in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Iran share the problem of poor access to world fiber markets and as a result experience considerable losses of income. Many of the program activities targeting production and market constraints of the cashmere can be implicated based on following development program: Analysis of markets and farmers' access to market; improvement in goat management within households; improvement in shearing and classification of

The materials and methods used in this chapter of the book were (a) to do a bibliography including author's researches [11–16] on cashmere goats. In some of the author's researches, he measured fiber characteristics by himself with microprojection technic. For example, in one of them, we tried to know the effects of age and

So in this bibliography, the author's experiences were the majority part of the

• Contact with cashmere goat keepers. Their livelihood depends on cashmere

• The results of some of these activities helped to clarify the origin of goats in the

In this chapter, we tried to see the cashmere fiber from another perspective. This view was based on the dependence of the life of farmers on the production of cashmere. Economic significance, the principles of biology, the structure of cashmere goats, genetics, and fiber-based products were reviewed. The importance of raising goats for the production of cashmere is further noticed by the fact that in the modern life of today's world, there are those people whose livelihoods depend on the sale of cashmere. It is necessary to introduce cashmere to the new generation of students in the field of animal science. A lot of interesting research and achievements about cashmere happened 50 years ago. The task of the authors of livestock books is to familiarize young researchers with this subject. This chapter was an attempt to familiarizereaders with the main concepts of cashmere industry. There are issues in the textile industry that are related to raw materials. Solving the problem of raw materials is the responsibility of the animal breeders. The needs of the consumer and the cloth's fashion world should be identified. Then livestock scientists, including animal nutritionist, physiologists, and geneticist, try to produce the raw material of cashmere needed by the industry. At the same time, it will supply income for

goat keepers. Cashmere production helps our world to live more peaceful.

• Research on characteristics of cashmere and genetics of cashmere goats.

• Frequent visits to goat breeding areas and living with goat keepers.

fiber; and standardization based on international quality standards.

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We have not any "conflict of interest."
